The Best Bloody Tour I've Ever Been On

Back in the days of thunder when rugby clubs used to tour rioutously at Easter, the Aston Old Edwardian version always used to conclude with the End of Tour Supper back at the club. And the supper would be followed by a few awards (Most Pissed Person on Tour etc) and very brief speeches. Denis Walker (long since deceased) would bring the curtain down with a vote of thanks to our Tour Supremo, Alan Haynes, TD, JP. And every year Denis would finish with the line that this had been 'the worst bloody tour I've ever been on'. It was an affectionate jibe. I loved those tours - those days have gone, swallowed in the maw of modernism. Oh well, I was lucky to have been alive.

Last week under the brilliant stewardship of an old fellow rugby warrior, RM (under whose captaincy I played the best rugby of my undistinguished career) and the standing committee (they don't keep minutes or hold elections - too bloody right) the ever-burgeoning QMT golf tour ventured South-West to Tewkesbury. This was brilliant. On Wednesday we played at Puckrup Hall which transpired to be fabulous. At Puckrup in the Grand Match (edition one) Floyd House (it's a school thing) beat the Rest of the World 3.5 - 2.5. As ever, Floyd rule - God is in his heaven and all's well in the world. The Pig and his great mate Silverdog took an unexpected half from the ROW captain and the formidable TW. Days of thunder live.

18th at Puckrup Hall

From Puckrup on to Tewkesbury Park for two days of hangover golf. Not such a good course though plenty good enough. SB took the honours on QMT day and the curtain fell with a Texas Scramble on Friday. The Pig was honoured to share a buggy with NMC the godfather of Aston Colts rugby - the man who gave the Pig his first taste of captaincy in that first season in 75/76. days of thunder live indeed.

The best bloody tour I've ever been on.